As an artist, Ian White worked primarily with performance. He also produced a number of works on paper and several installations.

White was active in a variety of contexts during the 1990s, particularly the Cambridge experimental poetry scene and later the underground arts scene around the Horse Hospital in London. In the early 2000s his work developed in new directions, initially through performances playing with the form of the lecture but also increasingly incorporating elements of dance and theatre. This list begins with The Neon Gainsborough, first performed in 2002, which White in later years tended to regard as his first real solo work.

The list of works here is not exhaustive, and the boundaries between White’s own practice and his curatorial work was often blurred.